Video · January 7, 2026
How Vima Foods cut close from 20 days to 10 and gave sales teams real-time margin visibility
About this video
Vima Foods, a Caribbean food distribution company sourcing frozen and dry goods globally for hotels, restaurants, and supermarkets, had no standardized reporting across its business units and was running consolidations annually for audit purposes only. Every business unit reported its own way, planning and budgeting lived entirely in Excel, and a critical cost allocation calculation took a full day just waiting for Excel to process.
OneStream standardized P&L and balance sheet reporting across all business units, reduced close from 20 days to 10, and compressed that full-day allocation calculation to seconds with a single button. Sales teams now access margin data by customer and product directly in OneStream, enabling better-informed commercial negotiations. For CEO Guillermo Mazarrasa, the platform's flexibility means Finance can now focus on decision-making rather than waiting for spreadsheets to finish calculating.
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CEO | Vima Foods
Key takeaways
- Every business unit reporting its own way with no standardized P&L or balance sheet view made meaningful analysisnearly impossible. Vima Foods neededa single source of truth that could normalize all businesses into one consistent reporting framework for proper decision-making.
- Consolidation was only performed annually for auditing purposes before OneStream. Moving to a platform that supports regular close and consolidation transformed Finance from a periodic audit function into an active driver of business insight across the organization.
- Close period compressed from20 days to10 days after implementing OneStream. That efficiency gain reflects the broader shift from fragmented, manual processes to a governed, automated platform built arounda single source of truth.
- A cost allocation calculation that took a full day waiting for Excel now completes in seconds with a single button. Time previously spent watching a spreadsheet calculate is now spent analyzing results and making decisions, a fundamental change in how Finance adds value at Vima Foods.
- Sales teams now access customer and product margin data directly in OneStream to inform commercial negotiations. Giving commercial teams governed, analyzed financial data rather than raw spreadsheet exports has improved the quality of conversations happening at the negotiating table.
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My name is Guillermo Mazarrasa. I'm CEO for Vima Foods. Vima Foods is a food distribution company. He purchased from frozen to dry goods from all around the globe. And we sell those goods to mainly the food service industry, hotels and restaurants and supermarkets around the Caribbean.
We didn't have the proper reporting systems in place. Every business unit was reporting on its way. We didn't have a standardized way of seeing the P&Ls, the balance sheets. We needed a tool that allowed us to analyze the information in the same proper way.
We also had struggling in analyzing operational data. We didn't have a tool for planning and budgeting. We were doing everything in Excel. We were actually doing consolidation just annually and just for auditing purposes.
So we kind of felt that we needed to step up on those kind of problems we were having within the finance world. What actually allowed us to choose OneStream as a preferred tool was the one single platform feature to help us get into the one source of truth world.
For us, that was key. Understanding that you could actually standardize and normalize all businesses in order to make proper decisions. My favorite thing of OneStream is the flexibility that allows us to do or think about performing any type of calculation.
We have a lot of analysis or analysis or analysis in whatever kind of reason that we have. The benefits that we have around the implementation of OneStream are gaining efficiency, the closing period from 20 days to 10 days now.
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